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Be interesting to see how many food and drink items we can currently find/buy which are both Sugar Free AND Aspartame free, and to create a list here so we can all add to it, and refer to it.
The reason is, I often find a sugar free product, then when I check the ingredients, see it contains the nasty chemical Aspartame, which I will not put in my body so I put it back.
Ok, perhaps no sweetener is 100% perfect (although I reckon - just from personal experience- Xylitol might come close), but I just refuse to eat/drink anything containing Aspartame. I'm sure there must be many others on these forums who feel the same.
Also, I just wanted to quickly highlight (as many people I chat to in the 'real world' are still blissfully unaware) that Aspartame goes/has gone under several different names (disguises) around the world, including:
Aspartamine, Acesulfame-k, Alitame, Acesulfame potassium, Ace-K, Neotame, Canderel, Equal, E951, Tropicana Slim, NutraSweet, Sanecta, Sunett, Sweet one, Twin Sweet... and more!
There's loads of info out there about it, here's just two for start .... http://jaydax.co.uk/imho/aspartame.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotame.
Anyway, I was very happy to see Sainsbury's stopped using Aspartame in many of its products a while back, including their 'Diet' drinks (for those who like fizzy stuff), but I was also happy today to discover that they now stock Robinson's sugar free Jellies (packet mixes and Ready to Eat) , which are 100% Aspartame free (unlike Harltey's brand, which was the only one available in most supermarkets in recent years).
So, I will start the list off below ... please add any sugar free products you find, food or drink, as long as they contain NO Aspartame (or any of its other names). Would be helpful too if you could add which shops stock the item, and country (as Forum is global) .
Many thanks
Be interesting to see how many food and drink items we can currently find/buy which are both Sugar Free AND Aspartame free, and to create a list here so we can all add to it, and refer to it.
The reason is, I often find a sugar free product, then when I check the ingredients, see it contains the nasty chemical Aspartame, which I will not put in my body so I put it back.
Ok, perhaps no sweetener is 100% perfect (although I reckon - just from personal experience- Xylitol might come close), but I just refuse to eat/drink anything containing Aspartame. I'm sure there must be many others on these forums who feel the same.
Also, I just wanted to quickly highlight (as many people I chat to in the 'real world' are still blissfully unaware) that Aspartame goes/has gone under several different names (disguises) around the world, including:
Aspartamine, Acesulfame-k, Alitame, Acesulfame potassium, Ace-K, Neotame, Canderel, Equal, E951, Tropicana Slim, NutraSweet, Sanecta, Sunett, Sweet one, Twin Sweet... and more!
There's loads of info out there about it, here's just two for start .... http://jaydax.co.uk/imho/aspartame.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotame.
Anyway, I was very happy to see Sainsbury's stopped using Aspartame in many of its products a while back, including their 'Diet' drinks (for those who like fizzy stuff), but I was also happy today to discover that they now stock Robinson's sugar free Jellies (packet mixes and Ready to Eat) , which are 100% Aspartame free (unlike Harltey's brand, which was the only one available in most supermarkets in recent years).
So, I will start the list off below ... please add any sugar free products you find, food or drink, as long as they contain NO Aspartame (or any of its other names). Would be helpful too if you could add which shops stock the item, and country (as Forum is global) .
Many thanks
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